Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal’s Pushing Buttons Studios boards ‘Secrets and techniques of a Mountain Serpent’

Bollywood actors Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal have joined Secrets and techniques of a Mountain Serpent, an upcoming function by filmmaker Nidhi Saxena, as producers by way of their Pushing Buttons Studios.

Starring Trimala Adhikari and Adil Hussain, the film is about to have its world premiere on the Venice Movie Pageant 2025. Set in a distant Himalayan city throughout the Nineties, the movie tells the intimate story of Barkha (Adhikari), a schoolteacher whose husband is posted on the border.

“In a spot the place most males are gone and days echo with silence, Barkha finds herself drawn to Manik Guho (Hussain), a mysterious outsider who disrupts the delicate steadiness of ready, restraint, and fable,” learn the official logline.

Fazal and Chadda, who launched Pushing Buttons Studios in 2023 and produced acclaimed drama Women Will Be Women, mentioned they have been instantly drawn to the story of Secrets and techniques of a Mountain Serpent.

“This can be a story rooted in fable and but is startlingly related at this time. At PBS, we consider in backing storytellers who take artistic dangers and Nidhi has crafted one thing singular, poetic, and soulful,” they added.

Saxena, who additionally wrote the movie, mentioned the film is about girls who select to danger every thing and observe their needs, shedding the burden of moralities imposed upon them by the world.

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“I used to be in search of kindred collaborators and this looks like a gathering of minds and hearts. It additionally looks like we not have to borrow males’s voices to inform our tales. We’ve got our personal voice, which is robust, with femininity,” she added.

The undertaking was chosen and funded by Venice’s Biennale School Cinema program. Saxena’s debut function, Unhappy Letters of an Imaginary Girl, premiered on the 2024 Busan Worldwide Movie Pageant to nice acclaim. The Venice Movie Pageant is scheduled from August 27 to September 6.